We have a small environment consisting of 5 physical PC servers running departmental applications. What's the best approach for server consolidation? Do you recommend server virtualization? SAN or NAS? Would VMware or Citrix Xen be best suited for this? What's Microsoft's approach?

We've added VMware servers to our data center, and we're looking for a backup solution that works. There will be a mix of ESX 4.0 and ESX 3.5 hosts along with vCenter 4.0 with a mix of Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Red Hat 4.x and 5.x, SQL Server 2005 and Oracle database. TSM is...

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Hi, Can anyone help me out to simplify the understanding on the Vsphere and Redhat KVM virtualization licensing costs with an example(if possible)? Slightly confused on this ,it would be of great help to me. Thanks for your help Abhi

I have a user that has been granted the owner of a DISTRIBUTION LIST 4 to be exact, and she is the owner and the check box to allow her to manage is checked, yet she gets the error that she needs permission. If she tries to manage them in Citrix this is not a problem? What would stop her from...

I am running plsqldeveloper on a windows xp virtual machine. (Created on a windows 7 box). When I start plsql developer on the virtual xp machine I type in a vallid Username/Password there are no Databases in the drop down list so I type in a valid database name then I get the following error:...

Suppose I have a datacenter with a number of vitualization and cloud-based solutions running at the same time - KVM, VMware, Xen, etc. all of which have type 1 hypervizors and demand the undivided resources of a single physical server. How can I port physical servers from one environment to another...

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I'm using VMplayer to play with a few networking concepts and can't get DNS to work on a Win 2003 server. I setup a few VMs including an XP, Windows 2000 Workstation, and a Win 2003 Enterprise Server. I used the "add roles" tool to make the server a domain controller along with DNS and DHCP....

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